Kinane is back with Ballydoyle for Derby

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DERBY week, as ever, offers intrigue aplenty but none more remarkable than this. Michael Kinane, who lost his job as stable jockey to Aidan O’Brien 18 months ago and has had no subsequent contact with Ballydoyle, has volunteered his services for the Epsom classics and is set to ride for the stable in both.

It seems likely that he will be aboard the O’Brien second-strings, Gypsy King in the Vodafone Derby and Silk And Scarlet in the Oaks. There is potential for an extraordinary story if Kinane, reappearing for a team he left with little goodwill on either side, now